Wikispooks:Wikipedia+
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Wikipedia+ is a Browser Extension which augments Wikipedia pages with links to additional relevant information unlikely to be covered adequately, if at all, on Wikipedia itself.
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Rationale
Wikipedia is a vastly popular on-line encyclopedia. Anyone seeking information, on almost any subject, will find that links to a relevant and useful Wikipedia page will invariably appear in the first few results of any Google search. However, in common with all mainstream media sources, there is a well-documented problem with Wikipedia:
To the extent that a subject is judged threatening to established power and the widespread acceptance of 'official narratives' of events, the reliability and ultimate accuracy of Wikipedia articles touching on it is likely to be compromised. At the extremes of power and perceived threat, Wikipedia's 'Neutral-Point-of-View' [1] principle pretty much guarantees that the compromise will be fundamental. (See The Problem with Wikipedia for a fuller discussion)
It is this problem that Wikipedia+ addresses.
How Wikipedia+ works
Wikispooks and a number of other sites maintain indexes of Wikipedia pages whose subject matter renders them likely to suffer from the problem outlined above. The indexes contain links to additional information which is unlikely to be treated adequately, if at all, on corresponding Wikipedia pages.
Whenever a Wikipedia page is accessed by the browser, the page name is checked against a user defined list of those indexes. If the page name exists in one or more of them, a pop-up bar containing links to the additional information is displayed.
If the extension does NOT pop the message bar, it indicates that additional information relevant to the current Wikipedia page is NOT currently available (or rather not currently indexed as being available) on your alternative sites list. In this circumstance you have the option of creating an appropriate index page on one or more of the alternative sites, by clicking the extension status-bar icon and selecting the required site. [2]
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Requirements to make use of Wikipedia+
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References
- ↑ Wikipedia 'Neutral point of view
- ↑ Note: Wikispooks requires users to complete a registration process before index or other page editing/creation is possible. Other Wikipedia+ enabled sites will have their own individual requirements.
